W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents
Workshops
This workshop aims to identify Voice Agent standardization stakeholders and clarify agreed-upon applications to guide future development.
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Introduction
Even simple applications with speech capability are becoming more and more popular for ease of user interaction and richer user experience. Some of them are already available in our homes.
Voice agents are essential applications on various devices, especially mobile phones, tablet devices, eBook readers, and gaming platforms. Moreover, the integration of speech capabilities into traditional platforms such as TVs, audio systems, and automobiles has been a recent major technical advancement.
Focus
- Firstly, the workshop is designed to review the current status of voice-enabled smart platforms integrating multi-vendor services/applications/devices:
- Voice interaction with smart devices also in the Web of Things
- Control from Web browsers
- Interoperability and access to controls for accessibility/usability, e.g., smart cities
- Secondly, we will discuss the current situation in voice interaction technology for global deployment across all languages, including even better integration of LLMs to enhance natural language understanding and generation.
- As a result, we will identify and discuss the pain points, technological gaps, and clarify potential impacts on Web standards based on these pain points and gaps.